UNITED STATES

09.13.2013

The Master Fitness Trainer Course, or MFTC, provides the force with certified fitness advisers who have earned Army Skill Identifiers as Master Fitness Trainers. Master Fitness Trainers, or MFTs, serve as additional-duty special advisers to unit commanders -- company through division -- to facilitate physical training based on the doctrine in Field Manual 7-22, Army Physical Readiness Training, formerly Training Circular 3-22.20. The course is open to active and reserve-component Soldiers who are recommended by their battalion commanders or equivalent. First priority of acceptance will be given to staff sergeants, sergeants first class and second lieutenants through captains.